Welcome to Thinner Piece of Menopause and Beyond.

This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always, your coach.

Today is episode number 166.

I want to talk to you about why food is not for fun.

I'm going to give you some really good reasons why. Food is not for fun.

Stay tuned.

Hey, everybody. How are you today? I am not here in Sunny Belize. I am not here in hot St. Louis, Missouri. I am here in sunny, Tampa, Florida,

visiting my very, very best friend of 40 years. And hey, it's podcast time. And wherever I am,

I always make sure that every single Tuesday you get a new podcast. I don't care what I'm doing.

I don't care where I am. I always make sure you get another podcast. That's a commitment to myself,

and that's a commitment to you that I always keep. You can depend on me, which makes me talk about you

and your commitments to yourself and what

you make that mean, because I'll tell you what, nothing feels better than honoring your own

commitments to yourself. Think about that. And when we think about commitments, we think about

what we're going to do and how we're going to treat ourselves and what we promise

ourselves. And don't ever promise yourself something that you don't think you can keep. If you

already know you can't keep it, don't say it to yourself because then you're going to feel bad

because you didn't do it. You got to know up front what you're willing to do and what you're

not willing to do. And then it feels so good to follow

through. That's how these podcasts are for me. There is no way, Jose, that I am ever going to miss a

podcast with you unless there is no way I can pick up a microphone and talk. And so far,

over a year that has never happened. And I'm really,

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